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Google probably use server side Java without a really heavy load, and just add more servers to keep the load low. System which was designed for being isolated

by c00p3r 16y ago

Google probably use server side Java without a really heavy load, and just add more servers to keep the load low. System which was designed for being isolated from an OS (leave alone hardware) will have a bottleneck exactly in this level. Facebook doesn't use it as a primary storage with a high load.

cameronh90 16y ago
What would you prefer to write web applications in? C++? Most languages used in web programming are divorced from the hardware, and either use a virtual machine (e.g. Java, .NET) or an interpreter (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby). Virtually no-one uses a low level language for web programming, and the benchmarks say that the virtual machines are faster than interpreters. Java is very fast and efficient once it's running, but initial start-up time is often slower than interpreted languages due to the JIT compilation, but servers rarely "start up". If you're really hitting a barrier with Java's performance, just as with other non-native languages, you can write the performance critical section in C. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/which-programming-lan...